椰胡

Chinese

		coconut	barbarian; recklessly; surname
trad. (椰胡)		椰	胡
simp. #(椰胡)		椰	胡

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yēhú, yéhú

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝ ㄏㄨˊ, ㄧㄝˊ ㄏㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): je⁴ wu^4-2
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): ia⁵ hu⁵

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yēhú
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝ ㄏㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yehú
    • Wade–Giles: yeh¹-hu²
    • Yale: yē-hú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iehwu
    • Palladius: еху (jexu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵⁵ xu³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yéhú
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˊ ㄏㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yéhú
    • Wade–Giles: yeh²-hu²
    • Yale: yé-hú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yehwu
    • Palladius: еху (jexu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ³⁵ xu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: je⁴ wu^4-2
    • Yale: yèh wú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: je⁴ wu^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: yé⁴ wu^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛː²¹ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ia⁵ hu⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iâ hû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ia⁵⁵⁻¹¹ hu⁵⁵/

Noun

椰胡

1. (music) a bowed string instrument with two strings and a coconut shell body; used primarily in the traditional music of southern China and Taiwan

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 椰胡 (“yehu (stringed instrument)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		椰胡
Southern Min	Chaozhou	冇弦, 嗡弦
	Shantou	冇弦, 洪弦
	Shantou (Chenghai)	冇弦, 洪弦
	Nan'ao (Houzhai)	冇弦, 洪弦
	Nan'ao (Yun'ao)	冇弦, 洪弦
	Jieyang	椰胡, 冇弦, 冇管, 嗡弦

See also

• (Vietnamese) đàn gáo